Congratulations to Sarah and Aaron!

Two STEM City Stars have received their advanced degrees from NAU. Sarah Burcher earned her Master's degree on April 20th and Aaron Tabor received his Doctorate on April 27th. Congratulations!

Sarah developed the Flagstaff STEM City Initiative for Environmental Science with her Science Foundation Arizona Graduate Research Fellowship in 2013-2015. She has also created graphics for STEM City and worked with Killip Elementary students during an intersession bioengineering unit. Sarah worked in Dr. Kiisa Nishikawa's lab focusing on interspecific differences in frog landing behaviors.

Aaron worked with Dr. Rob Kellar in both the NAU Tissue Engineering & Regenerative (TERM) Lab as well as at Development Engineering Sciences. His dissertation research was on using plate-rich-plasma on an electrospun collagen scaffold to aid in full thickness wound healing. Aaron also serves as an instructor at both Coconino Community College and Northern Arizona University!

Aaron Tabor works with Killip students during an intersession in Spring of 2015

You can read more about Sarah's and Aaron's contributions to STEM City and Killip Elementary School in this post from just over a year ago!